but rather it's the total number of background tasks that is the
problem. Also means I can probably keep one or two useful ones running
(Logitech profiler, nVidia tweaker) as long as I get rid of everything
else.
"Haqsau"
Also means I can probably keep one or two useful ones running
yes, I keep several running like the wheel software and some windows
stuff. But even so, the os has a tendancy to be unstable AFTER a long
racing session so usually I will reboot. Which isn't a big deal for me...I
always shut down when not using the system....electric bills are killing me
:)
dave henrie
>>I agree with you Ruud, but the results speak for themselves. Killing
>>all the background stuff really does make a difference in Win9x. Don't
>>know why, wish it didn't, but it does.
>In windows, multitasking means multiple processes running
>simultaneously with the same priority given to each unless the app
>(Winamp for instance) specifically allows you to change its resource
>usage. If you have secureCRT, internet exploder, and f1 2002 running
>at the same time, Windows will continue pumping resources to each app
>regardless of which one is active. O a *nix machine, if an app isn't
>active, it's not eating resources.
It's not that hard writing an OS that is CPU friendly. Pick up any
Minix book from about 20 years back and you have the complete source
and explanation on process states: wait, run and ehm, dead probably.
;-) (I do have unkillable dead processes on Unix once a year perhaps).
It seems ok here on my 2000 machine, although I must admit that
sometimes after a couple of weeks of uptime things start feeling bad.
Just the virtual memory system not cleaning itself up. Esp. after
having run memory-intensive apps (mostly games); somehow releasing
virtual memory doesn't seem to be one of MS' strong points. *cough*
understatement.
Although I must say for example the Mac now with OS X suddenly begins
to care about CPU time; lots of the code just uses
'while(MouseStillDown())wait;' type of things. Obviously shameful! :)
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